Vong Hai Dai (Vọng Hải Đài) casts tourists' eyes upon Ca Mau headland
Ca
Mau headland locates in the South pole of our Fatherland, which belongs
to Mui hamlet, about 120km far from Ca Mau city. It takes you about 2.5
hours to go from Ca Mau city to Ca Mau headland by high-speed boat. Ca
Mau headland is the only place on Vietnamese mainland where tourists
can see the sun rising in Eastern Sea and the sun setting in Western
Sea. Ca Mau headland is compared with an arc. Every year, it is
consolidated by Mekong river's alluvium so as to extend to the sea from
80 to 100 meters with the area estimated hundreds of hectares.
The symbol of Ca Mau headland at Ca Mau cultural - ecological park
From
Ca Mau headland, tourists can see Hon Khoai group of islands in the
sea, which is 20km far from mainland. This is a beautiful group of
islands including Tuong Islet (Hòn Tượng), Sao Islet (Hòn Sao), Kho
Islet (Hòn Khô), Lon Islet (Hòn Lớn), Doi Moi Islet (Hòn Đồi Mồi). The
biggest and highest islet is Khoai Islet (Hòn Khoai), which is about
4km2 wide and its top is 318m high, where the important lighthouse peak
of Eastern Sea belonging to Thai Lan Bay locates. Especially, Hon Khoai
has many sources of freshwater and it often supplies thousands of
fishing boats with this. The specialties of the Alluvial ground of Mui
headland are blood arca and hair arca. The local people catch arcas
when the tide is as low as a surfboard on the mud-yard.
Immense Ca Mau wave
Mui
headland is mentioned as a sacred land in Vietnamese consciousness and
everybody desires to come here once in their life. It has a diversified
and plentiful ecosystem of mangrove forest. Coming to the tourist spot
of Ca Mau headland, tourists will visit the National co-ordinate
landmark, contemplate the forest, contemplate the sea, and do
sightseeing at the zone where people reproduce the forest village in
resistance war; take photographs when standing at the foot of Ca Mau
headland's symbol. Tourists will contemplate a lot of particularly
interesting things when sunset comes that are evening clouds now
appear, now disappear in an immense sea.